Research Catalog

Title

• החידה של אנהיטה / מייגן נטול סיירס ; מאנגלית, עדית שורר.
• ha-Ḥidah shel Anahiṭah / Meigen Naṭol Seirs ; me-Anglit, ʻIdit Shorer.

Author

• סיירס, מייגן נטול.
• Sayres, Meghan Nuttall.

Publication

• ירושלים : כתר, 2007.
• Yerushalayim : Keter, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• שורר, עידית.
• Shorer, ʻIdit

Description

327 pages; 21 cm

Summary

In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.

Uniform Title

Anahita's woven riddle. Hebrew

Alternative Title

Anahita's woven riddle.

Subject

• 1794-1925
• Marriage > Fiction
• Sex role > Fiction
• Weaving > Fiction
• Nomads > Fiction
• Afshar (Turkic people) > Iran > Fiction
• Muslims > Fiction
• Gender roles
• Mariage > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Rôle selon le sexe > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Tissage > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Nomades > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Afchār (Peuple turc) > Iran > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Musulmans > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Afshar (Turkic people)
• Marriage
• Muslims
• Nomads
• Sex role
• Weaving
• Iran > History > Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 > Fiction
• Iran > Histoire > 1794-1925 (Dynastie des Qādjārs) > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Iran

Genre/Form

• History
• Fiction

Note

• Translation of: Anahita's woven riddle.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9650715568
• 9789650715564

LCCN

0001005148704

OCLC

• 181625070
• SCSB-10999415

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library